• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.881-888
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• 2017

Logic design using multiplexer has been used as a useful method for design convenience and flexibility in structural digital system design. In this paper, we analyze the effect of don't care conditions on logic optimization in a multiplexer-based logic design, which was not discussed enough in the previous studies in multiplexer based logic design, and describe the use of don't care conditions for designing of a single multiplexer and multiple multiplexer-based logic design. Especially, the design method when the number of data input is not 2m (as the number of selection lines is m) is considered. We also describe how to apply the proposed technique to the digital logic design education in conjunction with microprocessor design using Arduino which is widely used in creative engineering education recently.